Tagged: AD21

One of our favorite foreign labels is AD21, which is run by Bruno Sanfilippo who already has a Hypnos CD release, as well as Max Corbacho who will also release something on Hypnos soon. All the products of their label are classy, beautiful and definitely worth checking out. Here are some new arrivals, and other AD21 items were restocked as well.

(Price: $19.99 2CD) Max Corbacho returns with a new work, this time as a double album, which again immerse ourselves into touching atmospheric ambient realms of pure beauty. The Ocean Inside is a paradise of lush, cascading long chords, as oceanic waves, back and forth, in an eternal flow of shifting tones and spiraling harmonies. This is music aimed at energy, emotional and mind levels, for listeners who love deep, meditative ambient music…(more/buy)

(Price: $13.99) “Had a listener’s only exposure to Bruno Sanfilippo come about through hearing his recent Hypnos recording Urbs, said listener would have identified him as an exceptionally refined sound-sculptor working in the electro-acoustic ambient field. But the classically trained Sanfilippo also issues minimalist piano recordings, of which Piano Textures 3 is a particularly impressive example.”
-Textura.org…(more/buy)

Bruno Sanfilippo & Max Corbacho – Bioma
(Price: $13.99) “BIOMA (In english, Biome), is a large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region. Terrestrial biomes, typically defined by their climate and dominant vegetation, include grassland, tundra, desert, tropical rainforest, and deciduous and coniferous forests. There are two basic aquatic biomes, freshwater and marine, which are sometimes further broken down into categories such as lakes and rivers or pelagic, benthic, and intertidal zones. The idea of this album was born after some field recordings made in different places in the province of Tarragona, Spain, during spring 2010. The electronics were created a year later in the recording studio of each artist and assembled in the sequencer to the final mix. The result of this union is a particular and unique Biome, a real living, mesmerizing and breathing system on a single long form track of nearly 59 minutes…(more/buy)

Hypnos artist and friend Bruno Sanfilippo has just released a new EP called Impromptu. Everything we’ve heard by Bruno has been worthwhile, so we hope everyone will at least give this a listen. Official announcement, followed by Vimeo and SoundCloud embedded samples, below.

Finally available Bruno Sanfilippo’s first EP IMPROMPTU.

More information:
http://www.bruno-sanfilippo.com/IMPROMPTU.htm

We firmly believe instrumental music can lead the soul into a sacred intimacy state.

Those of you who read this page at all regularly by now have certainly seen many announcements about Urbs by Bruno Sanfilippo, now available through the Hypnos Online Store.

Of course, we’re aware not everyone wants to order from our store, including those of you who might want the very latest Hypnos CD. This is especially true for those of you in Europe. Well, if you’re interested in getting Urbs directly from the AD21 label, co-owned by Bruno Sanfilippo, they’re offering it as part of a package deal along with a number of other releases on this fantastic label. Here’s their announcement, including a link.

COMBO PACK CDs | Urbs, Bioma plus 18 titles in a special section in our ad21 store. ad21 is the first independent spanish label featuring ambient, electronic, minimalism and contemporary musical forms.
Our mission is to offer our music free of decisions imposed by the modes, commercial interests or any commitment other than our independent artistic creation.
So it’s only thanks to the unconditional support of our listeners & fans, we can continue offering our albums in physical form.

Buying our albums you are helping us to continue releasing our music on CD format.

We believe that the instrumental music can lead the soul into a state of sacred intimacy.

We’re pleased to have acquired several CD offerings from the AD21 label for sale on the Hypnos Online Store. We assume our customers will eat these up, and we’ll make every effort to stock more of this great label’s releases.

Bruno Sanfilippo – Auralspace
(AD21 category)
(Price: $13.99) The CD is presented in a deluxe digipack 6 panel, 71 min. on 7 pieces that are in a practically continuous flow. The gentle whistles flow effortlessly on a soft carpet of electronics textures, slow spiraling in increases-decreases, creating a recording not to be missed by those who are curious and by those who love to fly far away on the wings of surreal environment….(more/buy)

Bruno Sanfilippo – InTRO
(AD21 category)
(Price: $13.99) Bruno Sanfilippo is an artist who is quickly developing a well-respected name for himself in ambient circles. With this in mind, the aptly titled InTRO is a great place to acquaint oneself with Bruno’s talents. Made up of seven distinct pieces, InTRO presents a variety of styles and sounds that all showcase Sanfilippo’s skills….(more/buy)

Bruno Sanfilippo – Piano Textures
(AD21 category)
(Price: $13.99) The sequentially titled pieces in Piano Textures, by the Argentine contemporary composer, Bruno Sanfilippo, are nothing short of a gorgeous composition. Period. Simple and elegant, mesmerizing and haunting. In his evenly paced recording, Sanfilippo gently strokes the hammered strings with a touch of reverse reverb, Armenian duduk and a pinch of synthesized sound….(more/buy)

Bruno Sanfilippo – Piano Textures 2
(AD21 category)
(Price: $13.99) “As implied by the release’s title, the principle instrument here is a grand piano (a model 1923 Steinway D, to be exact). The latter has been sampled, and the notes are accompanied by electronically generated atmospheres. The result, as one might expect, is ambience seasoned by classical influences. Sanfilippo plays gentle Steinway chords that linger with a congenial sovereignty. The melodies pursue an extremely relaxed temperament with each expression isolated by reverent pauses (which are suitably filled with languidly drifting texturals). The electronics are primarily tenuous, establishing vaporous environs not unlike the mists that cloak a
beach in the dawn hours. These tonalities engulf the music in translucence, a luster delicately penetrated by the piano notes. Some of the atmospherics exhibit a suppressed grittiness reminiscent of distant electrical currents crackling in an open field.”
-Matt Howarth, Sonic Curiosity…(more/buy)

Bruno Sanfilippo + Mathias Grassow – CROMO [Piano & Drones]
(AD21 category)
(Price: $13.99) “Delicate piano melodies blend with controlled drones to produce tuneage of a highly relaxing nature. Sanfilippo settles down and lets his fingers caress the ivories, coaxing forth languid chords that sinuously undulate into soothing melodies. The music is soft and personal, drawing the listener into a realm of crisp piano expressions which incite pleasant moods. The songs are restrained and consist mainly of gentle notes that glisten as they drift on the air. Meanwhile Grassow applies crafted drones to the melodies, generating layers of atmospheric moodiness which hangs shimmering in the background. These texturals enhance the traditional piano melodies with their ethereal embellishment, flavoring the recital medium with the modern touch of tenuous electronics.”
-Matt Howarth, soniccuriosity.com…(more/buy)

BreathStream – Max Corbacho
(AD21 category)
(Price: $13.99) BreathStream is a new series of seven atmospheric spaces built with synthetic textures and floating harmonies. A smooth journey through deep interior spaces, as if we were floating deeply immersed in a long, quiet, spacious breathing….(more/buy)

Max Corbacho – The Talisman
(AD21 category)
(Price: $13.99) Eleven compositions created between 2004 and 2006, based on new, on the edge, harmonic and textural explorations. Intense, light, dark and purely atmospheric, most of these songs were composed during various, long, deep meditative improvisation sessions….(more/buy)

Max Corbacho – The Resonant Memory of Earth
(AD21 category)
(Price: $13.99) A slow landscape of organic, waving, and mysterious atmospheres. Soft coiling and morphing textures, heavy atmospheric textural music for a deep drift into the dimensions of space, time and place….(more/buy)

Max Corbacho – Ars Lucis
(AD21 category)
(Price: $13.99) Light and harmony could set this purely atmospheric new work by Max Corbacho. Not the blinding light from outside but light filtered through high windows of colored glass, broken and transformed into multi-colored gems, transferring that which is material to That which is immaterial. Like a weightless dream, the main theme is exposed in Light-Matrix Portal, where a gentle swirl of chords leads us, as in a Gothic doorway, in a magnificent space. The main theme remains on all the pieces in a subtle way, spreading mystical, delicate scents through labyrinthine passages ascending and spiraling to the vaults. Max presents the album’s flow through different sonic zones sequentially, as if we proceeded on walking meditation in a 13th century cathedral….(more/buy)